The trios quiet weekend is interupted when Sam and her folks are invited to a luxury hotel. Everything seems fine until Danny discovers that the Fentons also recieved an invitation from a familliar foe.

"Now Daniel," Vlad
cooed, "I'd have thought that was obvious even to a c grade
student Samantha is here with me."

Danny's blood boiled
as he gripped the cell phone so tightly that his knuckles turned
white. Tucker seemed concerned that he would break it and attempted
to wrestle it from his friends grip. Danny making himself intangible
so that Tucker merely passed through him and crashed painfully onto
the sidewalk.

"If you've hurt
her…" Danny growled into the cell.

"Daniel, can we
please dispense with the clichéd threats? I have a very
important meeting to attend. I'll be sure to tell Miss Mason that
you called." Vlad sighed.

"Look Vlad," Danny
said with a shaking voice as he struggled to keep his tone civil.
"What is it you want from me this time?"

On the end of the line
Danny heard Vlad chuckle softly.

"You know Daniel
that's a very unhealthy attitude." He laughed "Not everything
is about you."

It was Danny's turn
to sigh.

"Are you kidding me?
You spend all your free time plotting against me!" He moaned.

Despite his concern for
Sam Danny couldn't resist a dig at the twisted old bachelor.

"What a catch."
Danny muttered sarcastically.

His remark seemed to
have cut to the bone as Vlad's voice suddenly became icy. "Samantha
is safe for now." He growled. "I'm sure that she'll be
pleased to tell you herself on Monday." Vlad hung up leaving Danny
staring at the cell.

"Well?" Tucker
asked, rubbing his elbow. "Is Sam okay?"

"Hello! Vlad has her!
How can she possibly be okay?"

"Define 'has her'"
said Tucker making air quotes as he spoke.

"She's at his
place."

"Which we already
knew." Tucker reminded him "Danny I know Vlad's evil and
everything but maybe she's not in as much trouble as you think she
is."

"Then why didn't
she answer herself?"

Tucker struggled to
find an excuse. "Um...' he ventured "maybe she was enjoying the
buffet."

Danny didn't look
convinced. He transformed into his ghost form and glided into the
air.

"I'm going after
her!"

"Danny wait!"
Tucker called after him "What about your curfew? What are you going
to tell your folks?"

"Tell them I'm
staying at yours!"

"And how are you
going to explain your sudden appearance to the Masons?"

Danny thought for a
moment. How could he explain traveling several hundred miles with no
visible means of transport? Worse still it was the middle of the
night, the Masons weren't too keen on him already if he shows up in
their daughters bedroom in the middle of the night and starts beating
up their host it really wasn't going to make a good impression.

"I'll cross that
bridge when I come to it." Danny muttered and with that he sped off
as fast as he could.

"Call me when you
hear something!" Tucker called out to the black and white blur now
speeding away towards the horizon.

"Was that my cell?"
Sam demanded barging into Vlads study with her arms folded angrily
across her chest. Vlad had disappeared from the dinner table some
time ago, feigning concern for their host but really suspecting Vlad
was up to something Samantha had told her parents that she would
check on him.

It had been difficult
to explain her relationship with Vlad to her parents. 'He's my
best friends half ghost nemesis probably wouldn't have gone down
too well so she stuck to 'he's a friend of the Fenton's.'
They seemed to buy that, it was half true after all.

Eventually after some
searching she had found him in his dark study braying into her cell
phone.

"Yes it's yours"
Vlad smiled turning to face her, "but I'm afraid the signal's
very bad in these parts. I could barely hear a word."

Sam stormed over and
snatched it from Vlad stuffing it into her bag which was lying open
on the sofa. He'd clearly been going through her things.

"Look," she snapped
at him. "I don't know what it is you want from Danny but you
leave my parents out of it or I swear I'll…"

She didn't finish her
sentence there was a flash and Vlad was suddenly transformed into
ghost form. He sent a bolt of ectoplasm at her which sent her
skidding across the polished floor and crashing into the large red
velvet drapes framing the windows in Vlads dingy gothic study. As Sam
grabbed one to steady herself. The red velvet collapsed down onto her
sending everything black. After a moment of darkness Vlad pulled the
covers back and met her gaze with glowing red eyes.

"You'll do nothing
my dear because I think that you at least are smart enough to see the
consequences of your actions. You stay quiet and they stay safe."
He grinned.

"It is interesting
though that you are so concerned for others safety and yet completely
forget about your own, I'll remember that."

"You tell me? You're
the one with the unhealthy obsession" Sam snorted.

"You think I'm
frightened of that boy?" Vlad demanded shrilly.

"Well he has kicked
your ass and outsmarted you innumerable times".

"Four is not an
innumerable number of times. Even for a c grade student!" Vlad
snapped before coming to his senses. "This time however Daniel
isn't my concern. Nothing will stand in the way of my project."

"Which is?"

"Well I was going to
let you see the prototype at tonight's seminar but as you've
proved yourself incapable of not interfering I'm afraid it'll
have to be a private showing between your parents and I."

Sam struggled angrily
against the folds of velvet restricting her. Vlad merely laughed and
pushed her back down. As Sam lay panting on the floor Vlad clicked
his thin white fingers and a large matronly woman appeared.

Her grey hair was
pulled back into a neat bun held in place with two pink pins. Her
enormous bosom shook as she knelt down and scooped Samantha. As she
was thrown over the enormous woman's shoulder Samantha noticed a
glowing green amulet poking through the woman's blouse.

"Nanny Olga…"
Vlad started but Sam cut in.

"You hired a nanny?"

"Well," Vlad
reasoned, "I've never really had children in the house very
long."

"Dude I'm fourteen
and I'm staying one night!"

"We shall see"

"What does that
mean?" Sam demanded but Nanny Olga cut in.

"Shh!" The nanny
warned. Her accent was thick eastern European but there was something
a little off about it. It was strained, as though she hadn't used
it in a long time.

There was something
very wrong. Sam wasn't exactly bulky but there was no way the nanny
should have been able to lift her so easily.

"Baby needs sleep
now." Said the nanny in a rumbling voice.

"I'm not a baby!"
Sam protested defiantly, "and I'm not tired."

"You sleep now.'

Before Samantha could
protest again a wave of green smoke passed through Nanny Olga's
lips and into her own. Samantha felt her limbs grow heavy. She could
barely keep her eyes open.

"No.." she muttered
as she drifted off to sleep. "Danny…"

"Aw," smirked Vlad
faking a pout. "Little soldiers all pooped out. Well don't worry
my dear. Nanny Olga will look after you until morning. I promise
you'll feel like a whole new girl by then" He finished ominously.

He cackled at his own
joke before realizing just how puerile this was. Snapping out of it
he turned to the robust woman who now had the unconscious Sam cradled
in her mighty arms like a newborn.

"Olga," Vlad
ordered changing back to his usual form, "Take Miss Mason to her
room. She is not to leave and no one is to enter."

The nanny nodded before
fading away into an intangible form and, taking Sam with her she
floated through the ceiling.

Once they had gone Vlad
one again clicked his fingers. Three glowing wolves appeared,
ectoplasm dripping from their jaws like saliva.

"Watch where you're
drooling!" Vlad spat. "I've just had that floor waxed."

The slavering creatures
closed their mouths abruptly and had the common sense to look
apologetic.

"Now," Vlad
continued, "I want you three to patrol outside. Danny Fenton is NOT
to enter these premises tonight. Do you understand?"

The wolves nodded.

"Good," Vlad smiled
evilly, "now go. There's much to be done tonight and I can't
afford any distractions."

Again the wolves
nodded. As one they leapt straight through the wall to the woods
outside.

Stepping over the
fallen drapes Vlad moved to the window to and watched them mooch off
with a twisted smile on his face.

"Nothing you can do
now Daniel." He whispered watching the horizon. "Nothing can stop
me now. This world's on the verge of a new age and I'm in
CONTROL…. What am I doing? He can't hear me!"

Shoulders sagging
slightly Vlad slouched off to find the Masons. It was almost time to
begin.

Danny tore through the
night sky. He was making tremendous progress he felt sure that he
must be beating his own record speed. He had reached the border to
Wisconsin in less than two hours and was now bearing down on Vlads
mansion in the middle of the woods. But despite his impressive speed
he couldn't help but worry that he was too late.

As the mansion swam
into view over the top of the sea of trees stretched out below him
Danny found a second wind. Eyebrows knotted in concentration he sped
up as fast as he could hoping against hope that Sam and her family
were safe.

He was inches away from
the walls of the mansion when WHACK.

Something large and
green smacked into the side of him and sent him crashing back into
the undergrowth.

Pulling bracken from
his long white hair Danny leapt to his feet to see what had attacked
him. A large green wolf stood snarling at him, its gigantic paws
clawing the earth as it got ready to charge.

'Right, guards.'
Danny thought bracing himself for an attack. 'Why didn't I
realise there'd be guards?'

To his surprise the
ghostly beast did not charge it just stood their waiting. Danny was
just wondering what for when he heard a rustling of leaves to his
left and his right. 'Ah, an ambush.'

"Clever doggies."
He laughed nervously.

Simultaneously the
wolves let out a low growl which sent a shiver down Danny's spine.
He saw the first wolf arch its back ready to pounce and leapt just as
it did so. As Danny shot up into the air the wolves on either side of
him also pounced.

There was a tremendous
crash and three pained yelps below him as Danny turned in mid air and
directed the Fenton thermos back down toward the wolves. Two of the
creatures were caught in its green light and despite their best
efforts found themselves trapped inside.

"Two down..." Danny
muttered as he landed some distance away. "One to go."

And that one didn't
look ready to give up without a fight. It charged at Danny Jaws
snapping wildly. Danny shot ectoplasm at it but the animal dodged it.
There was nothing else for it. Danny once again shot into the air.
This time the wolf had anticipated his move and leapt up colliding
with Danny, The pair fell through the walls into the Mansions second
floor.

The force of their
collision sent both Danny and the wolf skidding across the floor of
the darkened upstairs room. Danny managed to clamber to his feel much
quicker than the wolf. Before the animal could turn for another
attack Danny was standing ready, Fenton thermos pointed directly at
the fallen animal.

"Bad dog!" Danny
snarled opening the flask. There was once again a flash of green and
a yelp as the third and final guard was banished to the flask.

Danny spun the flask
triumphantly for a moment before remembering the task at hand. He had
to find Samantha quickly. By the looks of things he was in one of the
guest rooms. 'Right now Samantha would probably be…'

There was a soft sigh
coming from the large four-poster in the middle of the room.

'She'd probably be
in that bed right there.'

But why hadn't she
woken up? Danny and the wolf had certainly made enough noise.
Concerned Danny dashed to her side.

"Sam?" He
whispered. There was no response. Danny watched her chest rise and
fall gently. She was in a deep sleep but at least she was alive.

"Sam?" Danny called
again trying to rouse her. He shook her this time, still no response.
This didn't seem to be a natural sleep.

'Just like sleeping
beauty' Danny thought 'I wonder…'

Danny leant in close
and kissed Sam softly on the lips. as he pulled away Samantha sighed
deeply. Her eyes flickered.

"Danny?" Sam
muttered groggily as she came to.

"Yeah I'm here."
Danny smiled "don't worry."

Sam smiled at him as
she sat up. He watched her cautiously as her expression changed to
one of shock and terror.

"Um, well put that
down to another fake out make out okay?" he said anxiously not sure
how pleased Sam would be that he'd taken advantage of her in her
sleep." Seriously was I that bad though?"

Sam wasn't looking at
Danny however. He followed her gaze to the doorway where a large
woman stood brandishing two pink pins like little swords, her long
grey hair flailing wildly behind her. Her skin was ghostly green and
the amulet around her neck was glowing so bright it was almost
blinding.

"NO boys allowed!"
she screeched surging towards the cowering couple.

To be cont.

A/n
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